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50 amazing quotes by Rubem Alves about literature and education

Everyone wants to learn to speak, but no one wants to learn to listen.

What is written in the heart doesn’t need agendas because we don’t forget. What memory loves remains eternal.

The eyes are the lamps of the body. When the light of the eyes is colored, the world becomes a rainbow.

Educating is not teaching the answers. To educate is to teach to think.

A single moment of beauty and love justifies a lifetime.

My time has become scarce for debating labels. I want the essence. My soul is in a hurry.

Nostalgia is our soul telling us where it wants to go back.

Educators, before being specialists in the tools of knowledge, should be specialists in love: interpreters of dreams.

Loving is having a bird alighted on your finger. Anyone who has a bird sitting on his finger knows that, at any moment, he can fly.

Life can not be saved for tomorrow. It always happens in the present.

We love not the person who talks pretty. But yes, the person who listens pretty.

There will be no butterflies if life does not go through long and silent metamorphoses.

We are the things that live within us.

Every soul is a song that is played.

It is not enough to have ears to hear what is said. There must also be silence within the soul.

Hope is a hallucinogenic drug.

Time is measured with beats. It can be measured with the beats of a clock or it can be measured with the beats of the heart.

God is this: the beauty that is heard in silence. Hence the importance of knowing how to listen to others: beauty lives there too.

Reading is making love with words.

Simplicity is that: When the heart seeks only one thing. Concert for Body and Soul.

We don’t see what we see. We see what we are.

Whoever experiences beauty is in communion with the sacred.

Without the education of sensibilities, all skills are foolish and meaningless.

There are schools that are cages and there are schools that are wings.

We have two ears. With one, we hear the passing noises of time that disappear. With the other we hear the music of the soul, eternal, which remains.

Passion is content only with the eternal.

You have to leave so that the longing arrives and I want to come back.

It is useless to travel to other places if we cannot disembark ourselves.

Maybe I didn’t get where I planned to go. But I arrived, unintentionally, where my heart wanted to go, without my knowing it.

Your sadness does not come from loneliness. It comes from the fantasies that arise in solitude.

God gave us wings of thought to fly, men gave us the cages of religion.

Happy oysters don’t make pearls. That goes for oysters and it goes for us humans.

Optimism is when we smile at the future “because of”; Hope is when we smile at the future “in spite of”

New loves do not match the dignity of old ones.

It’s been a long time since to think about God, I didn’t read the theologians, I read the poets.

What makes a people are the thoughts of those who compose it.

Beauty does not eliminate tragedy, but makes it bearable.

While the happy society is not enough, let there be at least fragments of a future in which joy is served as a sacrament, so that children learn that the world can be different.

My soul is a room where the strangest objects are placed, one next to the other, in no order, with no intention of making sense.

The birth of thought is like the birth of a child: it all starts with an act of love.

There are many people with perfect vision who see nothing… Seeing is not a natural thing. It needs to be learned!

Love lives in this subtle thread of conversation, swinging between the mouth and the ear.

What I do is try to paint with words my fantasies in the face of the astonishment that is life.

All nostalgia is a kind of old age. That’s why the eyes of old people fill with absences.

Jealousy is that pain that comes when we realize that the loved one can be happy without us.

There is no love that survives only on feelings, without soft talk.

I had a great urge to hug him, but I was ashamed. I felt “compassion”. “Compassion” means “to feel with”. I felt what you felt.

Love is life happening in the moment: no past, no future, pure present, eternity in a soap bubble.

That’s what being a master is: teaching happiness.

Prayers and poems are the same thing: words that we pronounce out of silence, asking that silence speak to us.

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